Gas-burner



A! H. WOOD.

Gas Burner.

Patented Nov. 9, 1852.

UNITED STATES PAT FFIQE.

A. H. WOOD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAS-BURNER.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, A. H. l/VooD, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Burners, and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvements by which my invention may be distinguished from others of a similar class together with such parts as I claim and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

The figures of the accompanying plate of drawings represent my improvements.

Figure 1 is a central vertical section of my improved gas burner. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the core or chamber which is inserted in. the burner as will be hereinafter referred to and explained.

In gas burners which have hitherto been constructed and particularly in the fishtail or tulip burner so called, a serious inconvenience has been ex aerienced arising from the blowing or smoking of the gas through the aperture when too much gas was admitted from the supply pipe, and, as it is well known that the pressure in this pipe is different at some times from what it is at others, arising from various causes which need not be explained, this blowing or smoking required the stop cock to be contantly adjusted in order to regulate the pressure of gas in the burner.

My improved gas burner is destined to obviate these objections by effectually gaging, checking and distributing the pressure of gas in the burner and thereby preventing any blowing or waste of gas.

My improvements consists in introduc ing into an ordinary gas burner a hollow core or chamber fastened to the inside of the burner in any proper manner and pierced near its top with fine holes.

a 0; in the drawings represents a fish tail or tulip burner constructed in the ordinary manner, the jet of gas issuing from two holes in the end. In the larger end of this burner is inserted a hollow core or distributer b b, pierced near its top with fine holes, the bottom of the same having only one aperture for the gas to pass through. When the gas is admitted from the supply pipe, instead of rushing directly into the burner and passing through the apertures 1n the end of the same, it has to pass rst through the aperture in the bottom end of the distributer b b and thence is distributed through the holes of the same into the main burner a a.

By the above arrangement the blowing and smoking and consequent great waste of gas is effectually prevented, so much so, that the full pressure may be admitted at once from the supply pipe, and produce a steady flame entirely free from the defects above mentioned, the full force of the gas being first received by the distributor and effectually checked and gaged thereby before it can enter into the main burner. In the old manner of constructing burners a very slight alteration of pressure in the supply pipe was attended by a corresponding alteration in the jet or flame, while in my improved burner a very considerable increase or diminution of pressure in the pipe will have hardly a perceptible efiect in the burner, as I have ascertained by actual experiment that the pressure of gas in the burner, after passing through the distributer is only about one fifth what it is in the supply pipe.

Having thus described my improvements in gas burners I shall state my claim as follows What I claim as my invention and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent is The use in a gas burner of a distributor constructed substantially as above described, for the purpose of producing a steady jet or flame and for preventing theblowing and waste of gas, in the burner.

A. H. WOOD.

Witnesses:

Josnrn GAVETT, JosIAH NEUHALL. 

